Happy 7/11! As always, those with access to a participating 7-Eleven location can help them celebrate the occasion by picking up a free Slurpee. The forecast calls for it to hit 93 °F today in these parts, so I have a feeling a lot of locals will be availing themselves of this offer.

What led to MBAs being so powerful? What was the main thing they knew that wowed people?

Spreadsheets!

And let's not damn spreadsheets, a good model is invaluable to making a business decision. Let's instead damn people that are too stupid to think about what a spreadsheet actually means rather than looking at that final number.Corporate greed and corporate stupidity (which are sides of the same coin) didn't start with MBAs, and considering how few CEOs have MBAs it isn't run by them, either. The MBA ability to use Excel just helps fuel it.